Harvard University is removing the “difficulty scores” from its course evaluation guide.
Given that the most common grade is an “A” at the institution, perhaps the administrators thought the information was now irrelevant.
The Q Guide, the College’s course and instructor evaluation system, will no longer publicly display course difficulty scores, Dean of...
Furman University student Lauren Cooley files this report on a communist-inspired cafe from my alma mater, University of California – San Diego.
A student-run cooperative building at UC San Diego called the Che Cafe Collective may shut down after 34 years of “non-profit business operations” and rock n’ roll because it doesn’t...
If you don’t get the absurdity of trigger warnings, this column by Jonah Goldberg should help.
Via the LA Times.
The peculiar madness of ‘trigger warnings’
Trigger warning: I am going to make fun of “trigger warnings.”
Of course, if you’re the sort of person who takes trigger warnings very seriously, you probably don’t read...
Pop icon Beyonce has been in the news recently, after her sister’s attack 0n her her husband, rapper Jay Z, was captured on video.
San Diego State University student Briana Alford says the singer is really off-key, in terms of being a proponent of “feminism.”
I know speaking ill of Beyonce nowadays is...
As usual, the always humorous libertarian writer doesn’t disappoint.
The College Fix has the story.
P.J. O’Rourke to Rutgers Grads: ‘Go Forth and Fail’
No, the noted cultural pontificator didn’t personally speak to the New Jersey college’s graduates (who didn’t get the chance to hear Condoleezza Rice due to a few vocal protesters). But...
Crowdfunding Site: “Help us sue the school protecting a known rapist.”
One Yale professor is being targeted by an Internet-based posse for alleged sexual harassment and attempted assault on students.
Inside Higher Ed’s Colleen Flaherty files this report.
…An Internet campaign seeking to bring the professor to justice – legally and in ways more abstract – has philosophers talking about and even contributing financially...
Chester E. Finn Jr. of the Hoover Institution is a bit concerned about America’s future and he’s looking right at you, college kids.
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry over the demand by U.S. college students for “trigger warnings” to alert them that something they’re about to read or...
Harvard University is joining the list of schools (which include Brandeis, Smith, Haverford, and Rutgers) that are giving the proposed keynote speaker at the commencement ceremony the “brownshirt” treatment.
Over 100 students, alumni, and faculty at the Graduate School of Education signed a petition to rescind the invitation to Colorado State Senator...
But don’t worry, there’s absolutely no leftist political agenda in Common Core.
Caleb Bonham writes at Campus Reform.
VIDEO: Teacher says he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
A teacher told attendees at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics Monday night that he helped write the controversial Common Core education standards to...
““There are courses where it is not the end of the world if we don’t have them.”
The University of Vermont is joining an ever-expanding list of schools that is cutting faculty and staff.
Interestingly, they have developed some fun new phrases to describe the act of termination: “Not renewing” based on “Incentive Based Budgeting”.
The Dean of College of Arts and Sciences has made cuts in four areas across...
Maybe someone could forward this post to Chief Justice Roberts.
Spencer Irvine of Accuracy in Academia reports.
ObamaCare is a Penalty
Ilya Somin, law professor at George Mason University, said that the ObamaCare mandate is more of a penalty to Americans than a tax as the U.S. Supreme Court held in its past decision....
Investigators are attempting to locate a 19-year-old University of Illinois student who vanished from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport shortly after checking in for a flight, family members said.
Hye Min Choi, a 19-year-old student at the University of Illinois, has been missing since Saturday evening. Choi vanished after checking in his luggage...
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza worked in academia. I can’t imagine him saying such mean things about a fellow academic if the situation was reversed.
Jennifer Kabbany of The College Fix reports.
Atheist Professor Mocks D’Souza’s Christian Faith In Wake of Guilty Plea
Conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza plead guilty Tuesday to breaking federal campaign...
Conservative college student Mitch Hall notes that there is one form of bullying that progressives embrace: Political bullying.
… The frightening implication of this political bullying is the idea that if the general public disapproves of your opinions, then your rights may be taken from you. If you have the “wrong” opinion...
The title of this post is one of the central questions in a new article by Megan McArdle of Bloomberg. So, does she have a good point?
Taxing a Professor’s Privilege
I’ve been reading Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” You’ll have to w...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Edcuation (FIRE) has an update on revisions to Georgetown University’s new and seemingly improved “Speech and Expression Policy.”
FIRE’s concerns about free speech on Georgetown’s campus go back to 2010, when the university refused to recognize the student group H*yas for Choice—hence the asterisk in the...
I haven’t read the study but I already think it stinks. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Kaitlyn Schallhorn of Campus Reform reported.
STUDY: University researchers claim ‘disgusting odors’ cause political conservatism, homophobia
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have found that exposure to disgusting odors increases social conservatism.
Using only a small pool of students and...
St. Louis University student Amy Lutz connects the news that former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich stepped down after the heat he received for donation to California’s Prop 8 and Condi Rice’s cancelled Rutgers commencement address to a disturbing national trend: The rise of “mob rule” in America.
…This kind of mob-like behavior...
So it turns out all this “privilege” BS we’re hearing about is just a re-branding of the same old tired leftist tropes. Anyone surprised?
The Examiner reported.
Professor at white privilege conference promotes Marxism as way to defeat racism
In a video posted Saturday at Progressives Today, Kankakee Community College adjunct professor Stephanie Baran...
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has an update from the University of Texas – Austin, where the were serious concerns about the fair distribution of mandatory student fees for the purpose of supporting a variety of student organizations
The trouble at UT began on March 6, when the UT...
This is strange, the last time I checked, Notre Dame was a Catholic school.
Dominic Lynch of the College Fix reports.
Notre Dame Denies Official Recognition to Pro-Traditional Marriage Student Group
A relatively new student group at the University of Notre Dame formed to defend traditional marriage has been denied official recognition as a...
We recently pointed out that the real purpose of most Cinco de Mayo celebrations is to provide an excuse to drink copious amounts of Mexican beer.
And beer drinking is often a focus of campus fraternity and sorority life. However, students at the University of California – Davis were forced to cancel...
